The Service Provider Edge Router market grew to its highest level ever, gaining four percent in the second quarter of 2014 versus the year-ago period, and contributing to a record quarter for the Service Provider Router market overall, according to a new report published by Dell’Oro Group.
Some highlights:
#1 Cisco Systems: Remained the first-ranked vendor with increased revenue into EMEA and Asia.
#2 Alcatel-Lucent: Achieved record Service Provider Edge Router sales, increasing revenue in every major region.
#3 Juniper Networks: Delivered a record quarter in Edge Router revenues driven primarily by sales into North America.
#4 Huawei Technologies: Saw a shift in demand as Service Providers in its domestic market, China, focused on mobile backhaul and cut back on routers for fiber deployments.
“Demand drivers varied by country as all regions grew versus last year,” said Alam Tamboli, Senior Analyst at Dell’Oro Group. “In the United States, demand for routers in the backhaul for LTE networks has been one of the primary motives for investment in recent years, however this quarter service providers in the region also invested heavily into fixed networks. In much of the world, routers used for LTE mobile backhaul networks continued to drive investment in the edge,” Tamboli added.
